Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is Very Pro-Situationship | Blind Date | Cosmopolitan

You do seem, I mean, this is like as someone who is a fan, like you do seem very smart.

Oh, shucks.

I

appreciate that I fooled you.

Thanks.

No, you're really smart and like wise.

And I've seen some clips of your Jay Shetty episode.

Like you're very like emotionally strong, which I think not everyone is.

Where do you attribute that to?

My parents, which always has to be the answer.

And I'm starting to get to the point where I feel like people think I'm just copping out.

But genuinely, like, I would not be who I am without my parents.

Like, they're just the best.

What's the best relationship advice your mom's ever given you?

I can tell you, like, some of the worst.

I can tell you how we've disagreed hard.

Yeah.

When I was in high school, my mom did not want to let me date.

Not because, like, the stereotypical, like, South Asian, like, don't date, boys are bad, blah, blah, blah.

It was just because she didn't want me to get distracted from school because she didn't want me to get heartbroken.

And I would, like, fight her against that, saying, like, you can't protect myself and my brother from being heartbroken.

It's going to be inevitable.

And we still disagree about this.

She'll still say, I don't think you should date in high school still.

I'm like, I'm a...